Some statistics concerning French Construction Insurance Market (Building Damage Insurance and Construction Liability Insurance)

French compulsory construction insurance (construction liability insurance, responsabilité civile décénale in French or RCD, and building damage insurance, dommage-ouvrage in French or DO) presents high technical, administrative and legal specificities, which in particular include the management of claims over very long periods and the need to capitalise on the insurance premium received on the subscription of the contract, at the opening of the construction site.